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KPPC DJs discuss firing
SHINING STARS—Jubilant over the reaction given to "The Dybbuk," the Drama Divison's first maintage production of the season, Laura Owens, female lead, and Alex Segal, the play's director and chairman of the Drama Division, appear content backstage after a performance. The play will be performed today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium. Tickets are on sale for I S2. from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today in the Commons lobby. See re- I view on page 9. DT photo by Tony Korody.
By JOHN HADDAN
Absentee management of the radio station KPPC FM was labeled today as the major cause of trouble and as a possible cause of the mass firing of 26 of the station's personnel.
Sam Copper. Bernie Mitchell. Jeff Gonzer, Outrageous Nevada and Les Carter spoke before a capacity crowd at Hancock Auditorium yesterday at noon concerning the loss of their jobs at KPPC.
Carter stated that they had never been given any satisfactory reason for being fired. He said that general manager Douglas Cox informed them Sunday at 11 p.m. that they had been fired. Cox told them that two policemen were outside the station and that they were now considered trespassers and were to leave immediately.
The police had a more congenial attitude than Cox and one of the officers had his picture taken with one of the disc-jockeys Steve Siegel better known to most as Obscene Steven Clean.
Carter said that Cox held only one station meeting last year despite FCC regulations requiring weekly meetings. Carter was very critical of this lack of communication between management and personnel and said that if anything was being done contrary to management's wishes, it should have been communicated to the disc-jockeys during station meetings," not through a mass firing.
A major portion of the group's presentation was concerned with the commercial and public service policy of the station at the time of their employment. Carter said that as a group they were trying to, . . raise the commerical mor-alitv of the media."
They refused to put on commercials that they did not believe in and pointed out the case of Simba where they refused a $3,000 advertising contract at a time when the station was in great need of such contracts.
The "Tarzan-consciousness ' of the commercial with the big white American game hunter out killing animals in Africa and working up a thirst which only Simba could quench while native Africans remained in the background in their usual stereotyped cast roles as porters was offensive to the people at KPPC and was denied air time.
However, the members of the staff were also aware of the owners' interests and were able to make KPPC a profitable organization.
When asked during question-and-answer period if they felt that the FCC had in any way exerted pressure to have them fired the members of the panel all agreed that this was not the case.
The panel cited their firing as the first time disc-jockeys were able to treat their own firing as a news story. Through what was labeled as inept management, they caught wind of their possible removal and were able to document their demise on the air.
KPFK has given them air time and from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. they are operating a community switchboard at 980 KPFK.
They told the audience that those who wished to help their case could write letters to the FCC. Senator Michael Gravel who had expressed interest in their problem or to the National Science Network in New York which owns KPPC.
Les Carter said. "KPPC will always be at 106.7. it's just a question of who will be there."
University of Southern California
DAILY a TROJAN
Panel to study money, politics
VOL. LXIV NO. 32
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1971
Independent reps resign
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
The two ASSC independent representatives resigned Thursday and applications for their positions will be available in Student Union 309 today.
ASSC President Kent Clemence, who announced the resignations at the end of Thursday's meeting of the ASSC Executive Council, said that deadline for applications will be Monday at 4 p.m. The final appointments will be made by the Student Court Selection Committee. on which Clemence, Robert Mannes (dean for student life) and Paul Moore (director of student activities) are members.
Clemence did not say when the committee would meet. However, it probably would not be in time for the council's next meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The resignations of Jim Kor-sen and Mark Spitzer, the current independent representatives, had been expected for some time because they were interim appointments of Joel
Rosenzweig. then the acting ASSC president.
In other business, the council voted to declare members of the student judiciary and the directors of the Community Action Coordinating Council. Inter-Arts Council and University Affairs Council ineligible to serve as delegates to the ASSC constitutional convention.
The motion, which was sponsored by Lee Blackman, vice-president for academic affairs, passed 12-2-1. It was intended to clarify the status of members of the ASSC Student Court in such a convention.
Earlier this week, the court decided 4-1 that there would be no conflict of interest if justices were delegates at the convention.
A motion extending the deadline for selection of convention delegates for one week was approved, too. Not all council members had selected their delegates yet.
Blackman said that the appointment of a convention chairman would be discussed at the
next council meeting.
There was extended debate on whether to declare the director of the Norman Topping Student Aid Fund ineligible for the convention. since the funding procedure is included as an amendment to the present constitution. However, some council members argued that the fund's management is sufficiently removed from ASSC control.
The motion to exclude the fund's director, sponsored by Jim Lacy, sophomore representative. was defeated. 10-7.
The council postponed many items of business until next week, including a report on the proposed $370 tuition increase by Carl Middleton, ASSC treasurer. and a look at the university’s financial situation.
It was also announced that the Fee Allocations Board has not yet met to consider the issues of 100% remission of medical students' fees and a $550 request from the Gay Liberation Forum to pay costs of a preliminary injunction against the Board of Trustees.
Panel to review elections
A blue-ribbon panel that will investigate ways to improve elections will be named by ASSC President Kent Clemence within the next week.
Clemence, who announced his plans for election reform at the ASSC Executive Council meeting Thursday, asked council members to recommend students for the six-member commission. Clemence said he would add the list of students suggested by the council to his own list and then appoint the six commission members, including the chairman.
“Because of the notable lack of credibility in the ASSC. which was only enhanced by the fall elections, the situation war-
rants a complete and comprehensive investigation of the election procedure—the Elections Commission, the code, the actual administration of the election."
“It will cover every facet of the election process—appointments of elections commissioners. political makeup of the comers, political makeup of the commission, the ballot-counting process, the appeals process for candidates." he said.
The commission will study past ASSC elections to determine successes and failures in procedure. Clemence said, including the two most controversial elections of the year—the spring presidential primary that was finally invalidated by
President Hubbard and the fall presidential contest that ended up with only one candidate on the ballot.
Clemence said the commission will also study two areas that may be controversial—the relationships between the council and the ASSC Student Court in elections, which have caused a great deal of conflict, and political ramifications, particularly in the selection of election commissioners.
“On this point, the commission will try to answer the question: Should commissioners be selected on the basis of their political philosophy or their competency in organizaing an election?" Clemence said.
Can a poor man become President today? Exactly what role does money play in politics? Is it possible that political candidates are not really trying to reach all the people, but just those people with the big money? Is this situation giving way to a government of the elite in this country?
Monday, a score of prominent speakers will gather at 1:30 p.m. in Town and Gown to discuss the role of money in contemporary politics.
This symposium entitled “Money in Politics”, will be sponsored by the ASSC and Political Science Department. Participating in the symposium also will be professors Laurence Berg and Robert Goodman from the Political Science Department along with Kent Clemence. ASSC president.
“I don’t think we could have brought together a more qualified group to discuss these topics,” said Goodman. “For the financial aspect, we have financial experts; for the political aspect, we have political experts: for reform aspects we have people who have attempted political reform.”
The list of political, financial, and reform experts will include:
• Senator Fred Harris (D. Okla.) an announced presidential candidate, served for eight years as a member of the Oklahoma State Senate. He was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1964 and 1968.
Harris chairs the Senate Democratic Caucus on Senate Reform, is leading the senate in a movement to reform “undemocratic practices" in the Senate.
• Edmund G. Brown. Jr. is presently serving as California Secretary of State, was the only California Democrat elected in 1970 to statewide office.
He worked briefly for NATO in Paris and also served as a member of the Los Angeles County Delinquency Crime Commission.
• Winfield Shoemaker served as a member of the California State Legislature in 1965-69. He is presently teaching in Fort Bragg. Calif.
• Charles O’Brien directs one of the largest legal staffs in the nation—over 260 attorneys in the California Departmental justice.
The chief deputy has personally directed investigations into organized crime.
• Mark Boyer, leader in Democratic party politics, has been active in the financing of many political campaigns. He has served as finance chairman for the Democratic National Convention and as finance chairman for Alan Cranston in 1968. and for Thomas Bradley in 1969.
• William E. Roberts in 1960, joined with Stuart Spencer to form a firm specializing in political campaign management. Among the many campaigns the form has handled is Ronald Reagan's for governor in 1966.
Yell king back on squad
Craig Caldwell, former captain of the yell squad, has been reinstated to the squad after a temporary suspension. The suspension lasted until a matter of mismanaged travel funds had been settled, said Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president of student affairs.
Caldwell has been replaced as yell king by Chip O'Rourke. The decision to replace Caldwell was made by the squad members them-sleves. said Ken Ude, a squad member.
The controversy first arose at the Oct. 28 ASSC meeting when Jim Lacy, sophomore representative, requested $548 as a reimbursement for expenses incurred by the yell squad at the USC-Oklahoma and USC-Notre Dame games. A debate resulted during which the matter of Caldwell s mismanagement was discussed.
Despite Lacy's request, the suspension occured as a result of mismanagement of funds at the Rice and Oklahoma games, said Nowak.
Caldwell was not available for comment.

KPPC DJs discuss firing
SHINING STARS—Jubilant over the reaction given to "The Dybbuk," the Drama Divison's first maintage production of the season, Laura Owens, female lead, and Alex Segal, the play's director and chairman of the Drama Division, appear content backstage after a performance. The play will be performed today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium. Tickets are on sale for I S2. from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today in the Commons lobby. See re- I view on page 9. DT photo by Tony Korody.
By JOHN HADDAN
Absentee management of the radio station KPPC FM was labeled today as the major cause of trouble and as a possible cause of the mass firing of 26 of the station's personnel.
Sam Copper. Bernie Mitchell. Jeff Gonzer, Outrageous Nevada and Les Carter spoke before a capacity crowd at Hancock Auditorium yesterday at noon concerning the loss of their jobs at KPPC.
Carter stated that they had never been given any satisfactory reason for being fired. He said that general manager Douglas Cox informed them Sunday at 11 p.m. that they had been fired. Cox told them that two policemen were outside the station and that they were now considered trespassers and were to leave immediately.
The police had a more congenial attitude than Cox and one of the officers had his picture taken with one of the disc-jockeys Steve Siegel better known to most as Obscene Steven Clean.
Carter said that Cox held only one station meeting last year despite FCC regulations requiring weekly meetings. Carter was very critical of this lack of communication between management and personnel and said that if anything was being done contrary to management's wishes, it should have been communicated to the disc-jockeys during station meetings," not through a mass firing.
A major portion of the group's presentation was concerned with the commercial and public service policy of the station at the time of their employment. Carter said that as a group they were trying to, . . raise the commerical mor-alitv of the media."
They refused to put on commercials that they did not believe in and pointed out the case of Simba where they refused a $3,000 advertising contract at a time when the station was in great need of such contracts.
The "Tarzan-consciousness ' of the commercial with the big white American game hunter out killing animals in Africa and working up a thirst which only Simba could quench while native Africans remained in the background in their usual stereotyped cast roles as porters was offensive to the people at KPPC and was denied air time.
However, the members of the staff were also aware of the owners' interests and were able to make KPPC a profitable organization.
When asked during question-and-answer period if they felt that the FCC had in any way exerted pressure to have them fired the members of the panel all agreed that this was not the case.
The panel cited their firing as the first time disc-jockeys were able to treat their own firing as a news story. Through what was labeled as inept management, they caught wind of their possible removal and were able to document their demise on the air.
KPFK has given them air time and from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. they are operating a community switchboard at 980 KPFK.
They told the audience that those who wished to help their case could write letters to the FCC. Senator Michael Gravel who had expressed interest in their problem or to the National Science Network in New York which owns KPPC.
Les Carter said. "KPPC will always be at 106.7. it's just a question of who will be there."
University of Southern California
DAILY a TROJAN
Panel to study money, politics
VOL. LXIV NO. 32
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1971
Independent reps resign
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
The two ASSC independent representatives resigned Thursday and applications for their positions will be available in Student Union 309 today.
ASSC President Kent Clemence, who announced the resignations at the end of Thursday's meeting of the ASSC Executive Council, said that deadline for applications will be Monday at 4 p.m. The final appointments will be made by the Student Court Selection Committee. on which Clemence, Robert Mannes (dean for student life) and Paul Moore (director of student activities) are members.
Clemence did not say when the committee would meet. However, it probably would not be in time for the council's next meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The resignations of Jim Kor-sen and Mark Spitzer, the current independent representatives, had been expected for some time because they were interim appointments of Joel
Rosenzweig. then the acting ASSC president.
In other business, the council voted to declare members of the student judiciary and the directors of the Community Action Coordinating Council. Inter-Arts Council and University Affairs Council ineligible to serve as delegates to the ASSC constitutional convention.
The motion, which was sponsored by Lee Blackman, vice-president for academic affairs, passed 12-2-1. It was intended to clarify the status of members of the ASSC Student Court in such a convention.
Earlier this week, the court decided 4-1 that there would be no conflict of interest if justices were delegates at the convention.
A motion extending the deadline for selection of convention delegates for one week was approved, too. Not all council members had selected their delegates yet.
Blackman said that the appointment of a convention chairman would be discussed at the
next council meeting.
There was extended debate on whether to declare the director of the Norman Topping Student Aid Fund ineligible for the convention. since the funding procedure is included as an amendment to the present constitution. However, some council members argued that the fund's management is sufficiently removed from ASSC control.
The motion to exclude the fund's director, sponsored by Jim Lacy, sophomore representative. was defeated. 10-7.
The council postponed many items of business until next week, including a report on the proposed $370 tuition increase by Carl Middleton, ASSC treasurer. and a look at the university’s financial situation.
It was also announced that the Fee Allocations Board has not yet met to consider the issues of 100% remission of medical students' fees and a $550 request from the Gay Liberation Forum to pay costs of a preliminary injunction against the Board of Trustees.
Panel to review elections
A blue-ribbon panel that will investigate ways to improve elections will be named by ASSC President Kent Clemence within the next week.
Clemence, who announced his plans for election reform at the ASSC Executive Council meeting Thursday, asked council members to recommend students for the six-member commission. Clemence said he would add the list of students suggested by the council to his own list and then appoint the six commission members, including the chairman.
“Because of the notable lack of credibility in the ASSC. which was only enhanced by the fall elections, the situation war-
rants a complete and comprehensive investigation of the election procedure—the Elections Commission, the code, the actual administration of the election."
“It will cover every facet of the election process—appointments of elections commissioners. political makeup of the comers, political makeup of the commission, the ballot-counting process, the appeals process for candidates." he said.
The commission will study past ASSC elections to determine successes and failures in procedure. Clemence said, including the two most controversial elections of the year—the spring presidential primary that was finally invalidated by
President Hubbard and the fall presidential contest that ended up with only one candidate on the ballot.
Clemence said the commission will also study two areas that may be controversial—the relationships between the council and the ASSC Student Court in elections, which have caused a great deal of conflict, and political ramifications, particularly in the selection of election commissioners.
“On this point, the commission will try to answer the question: Should commissioners be selected on the basis of their political philosophy or their competency in organizaing an election?" Clemence said.
Can a poor man become President today? Exactly what role does money play in politics? Is it possible that political candidates are not really trying to reach all the people, but just those people with the big money? Is this situation giving way to a government of the elite in this country?
Monday, a score of prominent speakers will gather at 1:30 p.m. in Town and Gown to discuss the role of money in contemporary politics.
This symposium entitled “Money in Politics”, will be sponsored by the ASSC and Political Science Department. Participating in the symposium also will be professors Laurence Berg and Robert Goodman from the Political Science Department along with Kent Clemence. ASSC president.
“I don’t think we could have brought together a more qualified group to discuss these topics,” said Goodman. “For the financial aspect, we have financial experts; for the political aspect, we have political experts: for reform aspects we have people who have attempted political reform.”
The list of political, financial, and reform experts will include:
• Senator Fred Harris (D. Okla.) an announced presidential candidate, served for eight years as a member of the Oklahoma State Senate. He was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1964 and 1968.
Harris chairs the Senate Democratic Caucus on Senate Reform, is leading the senate in a movement to reform “undemocratic practices" in the Senate.
• Edmund G. Brown. Jr. is presently serving as California Secretary of State, was the only California Democrat elected in 1970 to statewide office.
He worked briefly for NATO in Paris and also served as a member of the Los Angeles County Delinquency Crime Commission.
• Winfield Shoemaker served as a member of the California State Legislature in 1965-69. He is presently teaching in Fort Bragg. Calif.
• Charles O’Brien directs one of the largest legal staffs in the nation—over 260 attorneys in the California Departmental justice.
The chief deputy has personally directed investigations into organized crime.
• Mark Boyer, leader in Democratic party politics, has been active in the financing of many political campaigns. He has served as finance chairman for the Democratic National Convention and as finance chairman for Alan Cranston in 1968. and for Thomas Bradley in 1969.
• William E. Roberts in 1960, joined with Stuart Spencer to form a firm specializing in political campaign management. Among the many campaigns the form has handled is Ronald Reagan's for governor in 1966.
Yell king back on squad
Craig Caldwell, former captain of the yell squad, has been reinstated to the squad after a temporary suspension. The suspension lasted until a matter of mismanaged travel funds had been settled, said Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president of student affairs.
Caldwell has been replaced as yell king by Chip O'Rourke. The decision to replace Caldwell was made by the squad members them-sleves. said Ken Ude, a squad member.
The controversy first arose at the Oct. 28 ASSC meeting when Jim Lacy, sophomore representative, requested $548 as a reimbursement for expenses incurred by the yell squad at the USC-Oklahoma and USC-Notre Dame games. A debate resulted during which the matter of Caldwell s mismanagement was discussed.
Despite Lacy's request, the suspension occured as a result of mismanagement of funds at the Rice and Oklahoma games, said Nowak.
Caldwell was not available for comment.